To such an extent that next week a delegation from the DAIA will arrive at the UNCo to meet with Gentile, who was initially reluctant to meet with the Centro Hebraico del Neuquén, according to sources from that entity. LMNeuquén.
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THE UNCo assembly was held on March 13 and 14 where Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip was discussed.
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The institution is expected to arrive Mark Cohentogether with the special representative for the fight against antisemitism and before the IHRA, Fabiana LoguzzoRabbi Alejandro Avruj and members of the branch Local DAIA, whose reference is the lawyer Vaniria Mela.
The meeting is scheduled for June 10 at 10, and it is even expected that the lieutenant governor Gloria Ruiz receive the entourage.
The conflict does not escape the political situation, since the UNCo statement not only hits the president Javier Milei for libertarian managementbut rather links it to the international Zionist community.
Israel, the UNCo and the criticism of Javier Milei
“Many governments from multiple countries have been supporting the State of Israel and, in our case, with the inauguration of Javier Milei, the pro-Zionist turn has deepened in Argentina to the point of wanting to move the embassy to Jerusalem, an act that is in line with imperialist policies,” is transcribed from the assembly’s declaration.
The DAIA is not only upset by the UNCo statement, but said it calls for its review due to some terms it considers anti-Semitic.
DAIA: review the text of the “anti-Semitic” statement
He maintained that the Undersecretary of University Policies of the Nation, Alejandro Álvarez, urged the academic community to “review the declaration and, within the framework of the free debate of ideas, be able to delve deeper into the current conflict in the Middle Eastwith the academic rigor, intellectual honesty and equanimous vision that the conflict deserves.
The meeting with the DAIA is scheduled for June 10 at 10, and it is even expected that Vice Governor Gloria Ruiz will receive the delegation
The topic is more than sensitive. Due to the conflict and the invasion of the state of Israel in Gaza, there are more than 32 thousand dead in that area, including children and women. There are relatives of those victims in the region.
Corridors, flags and hot debate
But at UNCo there is another cultural and ideological battlefield, where teachers and students have been left in the middle of a discussion that got out of hand. There are teachers and students of Jewish origin, who, beyond their position on the conflict,have expressed a “difficult coexistence” due to the statements, the Palestinian flags and the anti-Israel posters in the hallways of the UNCo.
The UNCo spoke out against the “Zionist state” of Israel with a harsh statement that was spread on social networks by journalists linked to the Jewish community, and that within hours reached the small table of the DAIA.
The declaration
“The systematic and brutal campaign of genocidal actions by the troops of the Zionist State of Israel are generating a global impact. Expressions of rejection have been manifested in different places around the world: hundreds of mobilizations and statements in the main cities of all continents, from workers’ strikes in the West Bank or in Italy, the public denunciation of Brazilian President Lula da Silva, as well as the denunciation of the South African government before the International Court of Justice in The Hague that accuses the State of Israel of intentional genocide“, indicates a part of the declaration of the university assembly.
“Since October of last year the situation worsened with a prolonged attack by Israeli troops, with a balance of almost 32 thousand dead Gazan civilians, of which 13,000 were minors, 8,000 women, 700 elderly people, 9 thousand (half are minors) missing and leaving 80 thousand people injured, with the consequences of mutilation and disability as in previous attacks. However, Zionist genocidal actions also encompass cooperating organizations: since 340 people from international health services, 160 UN aid workers and 124 journalists have been murdered,” the statement continues.
The Jewish reaction in Neuquén
The text did not take long to reach the Hebrew Center in Neuquén, which after UNCo declaration 001/24 was published, through the university assembly held on March 13 and 14 at the National Museum of Fine Arts.
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The statement from the DAIA branch in Neuquén. On June 10, the Buenos Aires leadership will meet with UNCo.
From the DAIA they maintained that “the questioned statement was signed by Gentile and signed by the Superior Council and refers to “the genocidal actions of the Zionist government of Israel on the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank“, and requests “the immediate interruption of the attacks on the Palestinian population, the withdrawal of the occupying troops and the rupture of political, economic, cultural and military relations with Israel.”
The university assembly is the highest governing body of UNCo and it not only represents the opinion of the rector, who is the one who signs the declaration, but of a group of government of the entire university, with more than 270 assembly members.
